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Beethoven (The) Late String Quartets
When I was learning my ‘late’ Beethoven back in the mid-late 1960s, the Amadeus Quartet provided the stereo benchmark, with...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Serkin plays Beethoven
Adolf Busch | Bruno Walter | New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra | Rudolf Serkin
If Glenn Gould had heard this recording of the Emperor Piano Concerto before he heard and was mesmerized by the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1996
Beethoven Piano Trios
The completest of the complete versions of Beethoven's piano trios comes from the Beaux Arts Trio, whose extravagant seven-LP boxed...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1987
Beethoven Chamber Works
András Adorján | Dimitry Sitkovetsky | Gérard Caussé
It is quite obvious after listening to the Denon CD and this new one from Virgin that the two violinists...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1989
Beethoven String Quartets
I admired the original Kuchl Quartet's Mozart in the days of LP, since when, as the Vienna Musikverein Quartet, they...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1993
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 11 and 18
I knew that Earl Wild had long cherished an ambition to record Beethoven sonatas, but given his reputation as an...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1986
Bethoven Sonatas Nos 14, 21, 26 & 31
What’s not to admire about Nelson Freire’s brilliantly virtuoso, heartfelt and utterly alive Beethoven interpretations? They’re pianistically oriented in terms...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2007
Beethoven: Orchestral works
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
This follows very much the same pattern as Ashkenazy's previous Decca Beethoven symphony recordings with the Philharmonia, a warmly spontaneous,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984
Beethoven Choral Symphony
''Ode To Freedom'' is the headline on the cover of this latest version of the Ninth Symphony from Leonard Bernstein,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1990
Goethe Lieder
I find it hard to express the joy engendered by this recital. Upshaw and Goode are a musical marriage made...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994
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